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Lctfrs Patent IVO. 69,214, dated September 24, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN PORTABLE FENCE.

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TO ALL WIIOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH C. HUG-1113s, of Robinson, in the county of Crawforthnnd State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in I ortahle Fences; and I do hereby7 declare that the following a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference heilig had to the annexed drawings, making part of this speciiieation, in which- Figurc l is a perspective view.

Figure 2 is a top View of a corner.

'Figure is an elevation of the top of a corner post.

Figure el: is a side elevation of one of the supporting frames,

Figure 5, a top view of the `junction of two panels; and

Figure 6 a side elevation of one of the panel-posts.

The same letters areemployed in all the igures in the designation of identical parts.

This invention consists in an improved mode of uniting the'panels and frame-supports of portable fences, as will be set forth hereinafter in the description and claims.

A is the triangular frame-piece by which the two ends of the connecting straight panels arertied together. It is in form an isoseelcs triangle, the shorter side being the base. There' are notches eut in the middle of the base and in the apex, as shown in tig. il. Bevelled notches are cut in the sides of the top of the end pieces of the panels intended to form the straight part of the fence, and square notches are eut in the lower ends. These notches enter those in the triangular' supporting frames and prevent, by interlocking one another, any movement of either the panels or the supporting frames. The corners are formed by cutting in the end pieces of the corner panels bevclled notches, which are hevelled both ways, that is, hevelled in the direction of their length vertically, like the frame A, and also from one side to the other, as shown in fig. 3. The edges of the notches in the top and betteln of the 'corner supporting frames C are also bevelled to correspond with theangles of thi` corner panels. The panels are interloeked with the notches in the same manner as the others.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the straight panels B and triangular supportinfcr frame A, when respectively constructed substantially as set forth, with the combination of the corner panels D and supporting frame C, when respeetively constructed substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thc presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JosErI-I c, HUGHES.

Witnesses C. C. FLETCHER, GEO. W. Hoornn. 

